Over 900 paintings by more than 100 Art Nouveau artists in one slideshow screensaver. Art Nouveau, an influential movement of design and applied art from the late 1800s through the mid 1920s. Its premise was that art should be expressed on everything from...

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Monet, 1840 to 1926, is recognized as a founder of impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his...

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Degas, 1834 to 1917, was one of the true founders of the Impressionism movement, although he disliked the term actually traversed many artistic styles. His paintings display his mastery in the depiction of movement, apparent in his studies of dancers and...

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Manet, 1832 to 1883, was one of the first 19th century artists to approach modern life subjects. A pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His approach engendered controversy with the established art world, but today these are...

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Rousseau, 1844 to 1910, was a catalyst in the creation of the Naive, Folk Art, style during the Post Impressionism movement. His paintings express innocence, clarity, and colour, while at the same time a subtle undertone and acceptance of the struggle and...

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Over 850 Paintings by more than 100 Impressionist artists in one slideshow screensaver. Radicals in their time, the early Impressionists broke the rules of academic painting and gave color primacy over detail line. Characteristics of this style, prominent...

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The Hudson River School was an art movement in epic American landscape and seascape painting during the mid to late 1800s. The term school does not refer to a formal school as the word is commonly used, rather it embodies the affiliation of two...

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